Volume and silence opening videos

So, I guess this is new with iOS 8? It's annoying the heck out of me !! .....

When opening any video, if the phone is on silent mode, the video will not play with any sound. If you turn silent mode off while the video plays without sound, the sound still will not go on! You have to actually turn silent mode off AND restart the video itself before you get any sound. Not sure why they changed this. The video used to play with sound on silent mode unless the user put the volume down. In other words, if you had flicked silent mode on, but left the volume up 5 bars, the video would start playing with 5 bars of volume. This made so much more sense ! I thought this would be fixed in 8.1, but no luck